{"id":1695,"date":"2013-09-10T05:30:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T05:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2013-09-10T05:38:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T05:38:51","slug":"why-were-the-common-people-called-black-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/2013\/09\/why-were-the-common-people-called-black-heads\/","title":{"rendered":"Why were the common people called &#8220;black heads&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 221 BC the First Emperor renamed the Chinese common people to \u9ed4\u9996 &#8220;black-headed ones&#8221;. Why was this?<\/p>\n<p>Chinese, Japanese, English, and French language sources were surveyed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Baidu Baike<\/strong>: The First Emperor declared an &#8220;age of water&#8221;. Water is associated with the color black, so the common people were wearing black headscarves.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ren\u00e9 Gu\u00e9non<\/strong>: Black is associated with &#8220;anonymity&#8221;, but also with the Center and stillness, i.e. the &#8220;Middle Country&#8221;, and therefore with the purity of the &#8220;non-manifested&#8221;. (Note: Gu\u00e9non was laboring under the false impression that it was the entire people, not the common folk, who were called &#8220;black heads&#8221;. Black is associated with north in China.) [source: <em>Symbols of Sa. Sc.<\/em>]<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wu Kun (\u5433\u5d10, 1552-1620)<\/strong>: The hair of the common people was black.[source: \u9ec4\u5e1d\u5185\u7ecf\u7d20\u95ee\u5434\u6ce8]<\/li>\n<li><strong>E.S.B.<\/strong>: Perhaps the hair of the nobility was not black.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Daijisen<\/strong>: Because they didn&#8217;t have any hats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 221 BC the First Emperor renamed the Chinese common people to \u9ed4\u9996 &#8220;black-headed ones&#8221;. Why was this? Chinese, Japanese, English, and French language sources were surveyed. Baidu Baike: The First Emperor declared an &#8220;age of water&#8221;. Water is associated with the color black, so the common people were wearing black headscarves. Ren\u00e9 Gu\u00e9non: Black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1698,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avery.morrow.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}